“The physical universe is not all that decays. So do abstractions and categories. …Recall that computers, once a branch of mathematics are now their own field (but the development of fluid logic indicates a possible merger with the art of wind instruments).” Ted Nelson, 1965
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(In “A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate,” which is an outstanding title.)
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Do any other brilliant titles spring to mind? There was a recent-ish thread about book titles (I love "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" or "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"); what about papers?
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A few that immediately spring to mind:
* Stop Drawing Dead Fish
* Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?
* The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
* The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015
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